Combining fonts

&&&& I love the font Just Another Hand, I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning of the hyphen & equals glyphs… Cache-Control: max-age=3600 They look awkwardly positioned – they sit too high. Thankfully CSS lets you merge fonts...

Mozilla: Location bar spoofing with unicode characters (MFSA 2017-02)

URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.7, Firefox ESR 45.7, and Firefox 51...

postgresql: Insecure switch parsing

Argument injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.0.x before 9.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file corruption, and allows remote authenticated users to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary code, via a connection...

Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs

Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen or SHY character to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0956

The telnet daemon telnetd in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain system access via a username beginning with a '-' character, a similar issue to CVE-2007-0882...

security flaw

Buffer overflow in the International Domain Name IDN support in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier, and Netscape 8.0.3.3 and 7.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with all "soft" hyphens character 0xAD, which is not...